Outread: Speed Reading
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Speed-read websites, ebooks and documents. Outread improves reading effectiveness by helping you to focus on reading small chunks of text at a time. You can either follow the highlighter along the page or keep the text centered.
Featured by Apple in “Best New Apps”, “Train Your Brain” and "Read Something New" sections
“You're in luck, because Outread will help you get through [articles] and learn speed-reading in the process.” — Lifehacker
"Speed Between the Lines" — WSJ
“A clear winner in the speed-reading category” — AppAdvice
BASIC FEATURES:
- Speed read by following the highlighter along the page (Guide Mode) or by keeping the focused phrase in the center of the screen (Flash Mode - Rapid Serial Visual Presentation)
- Exercises improving peripheral vision, eidetic memory, short-term memory and chunking ability.
- Add webpages from Safari or other apps using share extension
- Paste text or add from a URL
- Sync your library, preferences and reading stats between your devices
- Adjust the reading speed and chunk length (length of text you read at once)
- Bookmark parts of text for later and add notes to them
- Selection of fonts to suit all reading conditions
- Monitor your progress with reading stats
- Filter (by services or tags) and sort (by date, length or title) the items
- See images included in text (even during speed reading)
- AI translate text added to the app to many supported languages
- Pleasant reading experience improving comprehension and concentration for people with dyslexia, ADD and ADHD
- Test your reading speed and comprehension
- Universal app for iPhone, iPad and Mac
- Everything is always with you, even offline
OUTREAD+ FEATURES:
- Read free classic novels from the built-in catalog
- Sync with Instapaper
- Add your own ebooks (DRM-free ePub)
- Add PDF, Microsoft Word, RTF and TXT documents
- Higher reading speed up to 1,500 words per minute
- Unlimited bookmarks and notes
- Reader themes: Black & White (great for OLED), Sepia and Gray
NOTE:
- DRM-protected ebooks (Kindle and most of iBooks ebooks) are not supported
Terms and Conditions: https://outreadapp.com/terms
Privacy Policy: https://outreadapp.com/privacy-policy
If you have any questions or suggestions, you can reach us at contact@outreadapp.com
更多 - New Home tab showing most important features and content.
2.8 5月5日
- Preferences with Live Preview: Tune Flash, Guide, and Text to Speech faster with a larger preview and a cleaner layout.
- Improved Book Discovery: Browse books in a new grid view and swipe through details more smoothly with the new pager experience.
- Various bug fixes.
2.7 4月1日
- On iPad you can now use either the sidebar or the tab bar (change through a rectangular button close to the top of the screen).
- Tap on Edit in the sidebar to reorder or hide some tags.
- Outread now requires iOS 18 or later.
2.6.4 3月16日
Various improvements across features on the Training screen.
2.6.2 2月20日
Various improvements across features on the Training screen.
2.6.1 2月19日
NEW:
- Daily Lesson: Train with a guided daily set of exercises, including progress, streak tracking, and reminders.
- 8 New Training Exercises: Added new brain-training games: Saccade Sprint, Reversed Crossword, Word Hunt, Word Pairs, and more.
- Smarter Level Progression: Improved exercise leveling and feedback, with clearer summaries, better flow between sets, and upgraded exercise visuals.
- Renamed "Highlighting" mode to "Guide", "Flashing" to "Flash".
- "Flash" display mode in "Listen".
2.6 2月14日
- Bug fixes and performance improvements.
2.5.6 1月25日
- Chunk size in words: You can now force Outread to always split text into e.g. 2-word chunks instead of basing chunk size on the number of characters.
- Other improvements to Reader Preferences.
2.5.5 1月23日
- Adds Focus option for Flashing reading, letting you mark the middle letter in a different color.
- Fixes accidental dismissals when making changes in Reader Preferences.
2.5.4 1月20日
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
2.5.3 12/12/2025
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
2.5.2 06/11/2025
- Replaced Top Articles on Discover tab with our own selection of Staff Picks. Also, articles now load immediately and are displayed on the built-in reader screen.
- Fixed text display stalled during text-to-speech under specific conditions.
Previously:
- Updated to match the new design language with Liquid Glass.
- Bookmarks with notes. Select some text, then pick "Bookmark" to save that part of text. Tap on a bookmark to 1) change its color, 2) add a note to it, 3) share it either as an image or plain text, 4) remove it.
- Summary: AI-powered summary of the text you're reading. Access from more (three dots) menu.
- Key Points: Outread's AI will find the most important parts of text, letting you quickly save them as bookmarks. Access from more (three dots) menu.
- Quiz: AI-generated questions about the text. Lets you quickly check your comprehension.
- AI tag suggestions.
AI-based features are available only on devices supporting Apple Intelligence when running on the newest operating system.
Please let us know at contact@outreadapp.com if you find any issues.
2.5.1 25/09/2025
- Updated to match the new design language with Liquid Glass.
- Bookmarks with notes. Select some text, then pick "Bookmark" to save that part of text. Tap on a bookmark to 1) change its color, 2) add a note to it, 3) share it either as an image or plain text, 4) remove it.
- Summary: AI-powered summary of the text you're reading. Access from more (three dots) menu.
- Key Points: Outread's AI will find the most important parts of text, letting you quickly save them as bookmarks. Access from more (three dots) menu.
- Quiz: AI-generated questions about the text. Lets you quickly check your comprehension.
- AI tag suggestions.
AI-based features are available only on devices supporting Apple Intelligence when running on the newest operating system.
Please let us know at contact@outreadapp.com if you find any issues.
2.5 14/09/2025
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
2.4.6 09/09/2025
- Fixed Screen Mirroring.
- Fixed opening the app through Read Now from share extension sometimes not working.
2.4.5 15/08/2025
- All book categories now visible on the Discover screen.
- Better voice picker and voice previews.
- Unified and improved progress display in Text to Speech.
- New "Go Back" button in Highlighting and Text to Speech.
2.4.4 23/07/2025
- Made text to speech quicker to start.
- Improved delays between sentences, chapter marks and other punctuation in text to speech.
- Fixed various bugs in text to speech.
If you notice any issues please contact us at: contact@outreadapp.com
2.4.3 22/06/2025
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
If you notice any issues please contact us at: contact@outreadapp.com
2.4.2 19/06/2025
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
If you notice any issues please contact us at: contact@outreadapp.com
2.4.1 19/05/2025
NEW:
- Text to Speech: Completely new reading mode which uses computer-generated voices to read text to you. It works across languages and supports many features such as the ability to listen with your iPhone/iPadOS locked or with Outread in the background, works with headphones and AirPlay speakers.
- Tap to change the reading position. You can now tap on any word on the Reader screen to move the reading position there. To start reading, press play or use keyboard shortcuts (on iPad).
- Scroll through text during highlighting reading. You can now quickly backtrack or jump forward by simply scrolling the text and tapping on a position you want the reading to continue from.
- Bug fixes.
Please let us know if you notice any issues: contact@outreadapp.com
2.4 21/03/2025
- Reorganized Reader Preferences screen.
- Bug fixes and performance improvements.
Please let us know if you notice any issues: contact@outreadapp.com
2.3.5 09/02/2025
- Bug fixes and performance improvements.
Previous changes:
- Added Violet reading theme.
- Added keyboard shortcut (p) for pausing active speed reading.
- Improved look of quotes in text.
- Improved algorithm for chunking words close to punctuation.
- Reorganized Reader Preferences to be less daunting.
- Added “Paste” button in the “+” menu that automatically detects content in your clipboard and adds it to your Library.
- Added “Fast Font” that shows a first part of a word in bold, improving text readability.
- Added a new web import engine that now handles more elements, such as code, tables, videos, numbered lists, and more.
- Added preference for line spacing.
- Added preference for line width (side margins).
- Added preference for text alignment.
- Added support for internal links in imported ePubs.
- Added showing the article’s/book’s authors when available.
- Added showing SVG images in the content.
- Added support for adding files by dropping them on the library list.
- Added a Go Back button that appears after large moves through content, such as changing chapters.
- Added importing chapter markers from PDF files.
- Added importing files in the background, so that you can still use the app while a file is processing.
- Added a completely rewritten “Resolve Display Issues” option in the three dots menu on the reader screen, allowing you to instruct Outread what parts of websites should be imported.
- Refreshed the look of the reader screen’s header.
- Made import started from the share extension faster.
- Unified reading progress indicators across the app.
- Improved content import: when you add a link that is a file, the app will download and import it automatically.
- Improved text extraction from PDF files.
- Improved Read Now functionality on the share extension.
- Adjusted the Contact Support option to work with the user-selected default email app.
- Improved the share extension, now it also works correctly for PDFs and other files.
- Changed the behavior on the content list: tapping on a chapter will immediately go to it, tapping on the right arrow will expand the chapter’s contents.
- Fixed fetching content from websites that require JavaScript.
- Please note that items added to version 2.3 and up won’t sync to version 2.2.x and below.
- Fixed various minor bugs.
Please let us know if you notice any issues: contact@outreadapp.com
2.3.4 25/01/2025
- Bug fixes and performance improvements.
Previous changes:
- Added Violet reading theme.
- Added keyboard shortcut (p) for pausing active speed reading.
- Improved look of quotes in text.
- Improved algorithm for chunking words close to punctuation.
- Reorganized Reader Preferences to be less daunting.
- Added “Paste” button in the “+” menu that automatically detects content in your clipboard and adds it to your Library.
- Added “Fast Font” that shows a first part of a word in bold, improving text readability.
- Added a new web import engine that now handles more elements, such as code, tables, videos, numbered lists, and more.
- Added preference for line spacing.
- Added preference for line width (side margins).
- Added preference for text alignment.
- Added support for internal links in imported ePubs.
- Added showing the article’s/book’s authors when available.
- Added showing SVG images in the content.
- Added support for adding files by dropping them on the library list.
- Added a Go Back button that appears after large moves through content, such as changing chapters.
- Added importing chapter markers from PDF files.
- Added importing files in the background, so that you can still use the app while a file is processing.
- Added a completely rewritten “Resolve Display Issues” option in the three dots menu on the reader screen, allowing you to instruct Outread what parts of websites should be imported.
- Refreshed the look of the reader screen’s header.
- Made import started from the share extension faster.
- Unified reading progress indicators across the app.
- Improved content import: when you add a link that is a file, the app will download and import it automatically.
- Improved text extraction from PDF files.
- Improved Read Now functionality on the share extension.
- Adjusted the Contact Support option to work with the user-selected default email app.
- Improved the share extension, now it also works correctly for PDFs and other files.
- Changed the behavior on the content list: tapping on a chapter will immediately go to it, tapping on the right arrow will expand the chapter’s contents.
- Fixed fetching content from websites that require JavaScript.
- Please note that items added to version 2.3 and up won’t sync to version 2.2.x and below.
- Fixed various minor bugs.
Please let us know if you notice any issues: contact@outreadapp.com
2.3.3 22/01/2025
- Added Violet reading theme.
- Added keyboard shortcut (p) for pausing active speed reading.
- Improved look of quotes in text.
- Improved algorithm for chunking words close to punctuation.
- Reorganized Reader Preferences to be less daunting.
Previous changes:
- Added “Paste” button in the “+” menu that automatically detects content in your clipboard and adds it to your Library.
- Added “Fast Font” that shows a first part of a word in bold, improving text readability.
- Added a new web import engine that now handles more elements, such as code, tables, videos, numbered lists, and more.
- Added preference for line spacing.
- Added preference for line width (side margins).
- Added preference for text alignment.
- Added support for internal links in imported ePubs.
- Added showing the article’s/book’s authors when available.
- Added showing SVG images in the content.
- Added support for adding files by dropping them on the library list.
- Added a Go Back button that appears after large moves through content, such as changing chapters.
- Added importing chapter markers from PDF files.
- Added importing files in the background, so that you can still use the app while a file is processing.
- Added a completely rewritten “Resolve Display Issues” option in the three dots menu on the reader screen, allowing you to instruct Outread what parts of websites should be imported.
- Refreshed the look of the reader screen’s header.
- Made import started from the share extension faster.
- Unified reading progress indicators across the app.
- Improved content import: when you add a link that is a file, the app will download and import it automatically.
- Improved text extraction from PDF files.
- Improved Read Now functionality on the share extension.
- Adjusted the Contact Support option to work with the user-selected default email app.
- Improved the share extension, now it also works correctly for PDFs and other files.
- Changed the behavior on the content list: tapping on a chapter will immediately go to it, tapping on the right arrow will expand the chapter’s contents.
- Fixed fetching content from websites that require JavaScript.
- Please note that items added to version 2.3 and up won’t sync to version 2.2.x and below.
- Fixed various minor bugs.
Please let us know if you notice any issues: contact@outreadapp.com
2.3.2 18/01/2025
- Added “Paste” button in the “+” menu that automatically detects content in your clipboard and adds it to your Library.
- Added “Fast Font” that shows a first part of a word in bold, improving text readability.
- Added a new web import engine that now handles more elements, such as code, tables, videos, numbered lists, and more.
- Added preference for line spacing.
- Added preference for line width (side margins).
- Added preference for text alignment.
- Added support for internal links in imported ePubs.
- Added showing the article’s/book’s authors when available.
- Added showing SVG images in the content.
- Added support for adding files by dropping them on the library list.
- Added a Go Back button that appears after large moves through content, such as changing chapters.
- Added importing chapter markers from PDF files.
- Added importing files in the background, so that you can still use the app while a file is processing.
- Added a completely rewritten “Resolve Display Issues” option in the three dots menu on the reader screen, allowing you to instruct Outread what parts of websites should be imported.
- Refreshed the look of the reader screen’s header.
- Made import started from the share extension faster.
- Unified reading progress indicators across the app.
- Improved content import: when you add a link that is a file, the app will download and import it automatically.
- Improved text extraction from PDF files.
- Improved Read Now functionality on the share extension.
- Adjusted the Contact Support option to work with the user-selected default email app.
- Improved the share extension, now it also works correctly for PDFs and other files.
- Changed the behavior on the content list: tapping on a chapter will immediately go to it, tapping on the right arrow will expand the chapter’s contents.
- Fixed fetching content from websites that require JavaScript.
- Please note that items added to version 2.3 and up won’t sync to version 2.2.x and below.
- Fixed various minor bugs.
Please let us know if you notice any issues: contact@outreadapp.com
2.3.1 13/01/2025
- New Home tab showing most important features and content.
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